Early adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia : including a residence among the Bakhtiyari and other wild tribes before the discovery of Nineveh /
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3193128
Summary
Bibliographic description
34, 436 p. : map (fold.), port. ; 20 cm. Pencil annotation and text marking on Bakhtiyari women's costume. Loosely inserted: autograph letter signed to V. Sackville-West from J.H. Reynolds, for the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, Royal Geographical Society; dated: 2 April 1928. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn 1927 from Copley Amory" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine, gold stamped cover design.
Makers and roles
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)